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In the practice as family therapist, the author meets a lot of migrant families who experienced social suffering as well as judgements and towards them. In front of them, he observed the necessity of transforming some of our therapeutic principles. The changes he will propose are supported by a reflection on the concepts of recognition and acknowledgement. Three main forms – themselves subdivided – of recognition or acknowledgement may be identified: mutual acknowledgement (acknowledgment of other’s rights, social esteem), self acknowledgement (capability of telling, saying and acting, acknowledgement of one’s own abilities, acknowledgement of one’s own responsability, acknowledgement of the promise of the link) and the recognition by identification (recognition of one’s own ignorance, fundamental similitudes, recognition of the suffering). The concrete proposals I will address to the family therapist insure these multiple forms of acknowledgement or recognition and constitute the bases of a true therapeutic of acknowledgement.